If one holds the proper end of the shovel, one will find upon some light gigging, that The FDA was in fact extremely impressed with Sucanon, so impressed in fact they determined that Sucnon is a drug and invited Roth to submit an application for aproval as a drug.
As for active ingredient in Sucanon, many drugs are based on plant and other natural ingredients. For example, Metformin, one of the top selling diabetes drugs in the world at many billion dollars of sales per year, is based on the Lylac plant. Image that!
As for the continued use of the words "denied" and "scam" these words used alone are more like political campaign sound bytes and are meaningless. The truth is that the FDA did not approve Sucanon for over-the-counter sales because it is a drug. Sucanon was not denied by the FDA, but rahter the FDA declared it to be a drug. The FDA never used the word "scam".
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